Video: Water People: Eerily symbolic works by Jason Levesque
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist and Illustrator Jason Levesque already known to many domestic art lovers, mainly under the pseudonym stuntkid … To tell about all his works is an almost impossible task, but we will still tell you about Levesque's last paintings. These paintings depicting peculiar water people, are very unusual: looking at them, it is very difficult to understand what needs to be done - to be frightened or admired.
Artist Jason Levesque lives in the city Norfolk (USA, Virginia), where he is engaged in design, photography, illustration and free creation. However, even Levesque's free creativity looks like illustrations for some science fiction novels known only to him. Romance with element horror and unfriendly fiction: in his paintings, frequent guests are smiling skeletons, alien monsters and other unpleasant creatures.
Pictures about " water people"- a vivid example of his shocking muse: these are not some little mermaids with fish tails, but strange creatures through which algae and water lilies sprout. Not to mention the fact that the images of the inhabitants of the underwater abyss are reflected in myths and legends, water people sometimes visit modern literature: for example, in the light of the main heroine of the surrealist novel of the French writer Boris Vian "Foam of the Days", a water lily also sprouts; the Japanese Akutagawa, in a famous story, told about the strange world of water-kappas, and the Czech Karel Chapek predicted the seizure of the world by underwater creatures - if you forget about the restlessly sleeping Cthulhu from Lovecraft's horror movies.
Yes, it is the horror film that sometimes resembles the paintings of Jason Levesk - but not only for the sharp plot they are appreciated by fans of his work. The main thing in his work is style, which manifests itself in the color balance: Levesque shuns bright colors, most of his paintings seem to be covered with haze or diluted with water. At the same time, the lines are clear, like in a comic book - but surprisingly, the characters do not lose their characters. Their faces are masks of some secret, something deeply hidden in a person; the views of the heroes of these paintings seem to be turned inward in search of something more important than the whole world around them.
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